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News Link • Stock MarketMacro Frost, Markets Hot: "Makes You Wonder Who's Doing All The Buying"02-13-2019 • https://www.zerohedge.com by Sven Henrich Markets are red hot, but it keeps getting downright frosty in macro land. Bulls will say none of this matters because an easy Fed trumps fundamentals. And that may turn out to be correct, but it's too early to tell. Read Full StoryMake a Comment •
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News Link • Economy - Economics USAUS Consumer Price Growth Slowest Since Sept 2016 As Gas Prices Plummet02-13-2019 • https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durdan While headline and core CPI slowed in December, the print was still boosted by outsized gains in a few specific categories so it wouldn't be a great surprise to see some payback in January (and expectations were for a slowdown). Read Full StoryMake a Comment •
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News Link • Congress-CongressmenCongress Will Not Support Military Intervention In Venezuela02-13-2019 • https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durdan Despite the War Powers Act, when it comes to the US declaring covert, not so covert or any other type of war, or merely "humanitarian intervention" on a foreign adversary, the US Congress has historically been utterly toothless and generally irreleva Read Full StoryMake a Comment •
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News Link • IranUnderstanding Why Iranians Bash the U.S. Government02-13-2019 • https://www.fff.org, by Jacob G. Hornberger Two days ago, the New York Times carried an article by Times' journalist Thomas Erdbrink entitled, "For Iran, a Grand Occasion to Bash the U.S.," which was about Iran's celebration of the 40th anniversary of its revolution in 1979. Read Full StoryMake a Comment •
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News Link • BitcoinBitcoin Successfully Sent Cross-Border Without Internet or Satellite02-13-2019 • Bitcoinist.com Fears over government interference and internet surveillance have given rise to some novel experiments in sending offline transactions as somebody has transmitted bitcoin internationally by high frequency radio… through a snowstorm. Read Full StoryMake a Comment •
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